This is an un-edited recording of a Train passing near my house in Montreal. That day, I was on the lookout for recording trains passing on those tracks. To my disappointment, for 3 hours no train passed by, only when I was walking back home and about to leave the train tracks that I saw a light in the dark of night. Immediately, I started recording and I was ready for it. Although, I didn’t have any practice to make sure my levels were sufficient to record without over saturation, nor did I have a microphone foam to protect the recording from the wind created by the Train. In addition, I was standing very close to the passing Train; it was a bit scary but I wanted that recorded Train so much that I made sure it would not let that opportunity slept away.
I was using a Sound Devices 722 paired with an Audio Technica AT-825 stereo microphone. The original file was recorded at 24bit 192kHz. Now, it is submitted at 16bit 44.1KHz.
Enjoy!